Fiona Fox
{{short description|British writer}}
{{for|the fictional character|Fiona Fox (Sonic the Hedgehog)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2013}}
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| name = Fiona Fox
| honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|OBE|HonFRS}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1964|11|12}}{{cite web |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U255572 |title=FOX, Fiona, (Mrs Kevin Rooney) |work=Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press }}{{subscription required}}
| birth_place = Mancot, Wales
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| employer = Science Media Centre
Previously:
NCOPF
Equal Opportunities Commission
CAFOD
Thames Polytechnic
| occupation = Journalist
Press secretary
Public relations
| relations = Claire Fox (sister)
| alma_mater = Polytechnic of Central London
| known_for = Science Media Centre
| awards = OBE
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| website = {{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fox-fiona}}
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Fiona Bernadette Fox (born 12 November 1964) is a British writer and chief executive{{Cite web |title=staff {{!}} Science Media Centre |url=https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/about-us/staff/ |access-date=2022-08-14 |language=en-GB}} of the Science Media Centre.{{Cite journal | last1 = Callaway | first1 = E.| title = Science media: Centre of attention: Fiona Fox and her Science Media Centre are determined to improve Britain's press. Now the model is spreading around the world| doi = 10.1038/499142a | journal = Nature | volume = 499 | issue = 7457 | pages = 142–144 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23846643| doi-access = free }}
Career
Fox was a writer for Living Marxism, a British magazine produced by the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). In 1995, LM published an article by Fox denying the Rwandan genocide.{{cite news |url= http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM85/LM85_Rwanda.html/ |title= Massacring the truth in Rwanda |date= December 1995 |first= Fiona |last= Foster |work= Living Marxism |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20010521175331/http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM85/LM85_Rwanda.html/ |archive-date= 21 May 2001 }}Chris McGreal, "[https://www.theguardian.com/comment/story/0,3604,181819,00.html Genocide? What genocide?]", The Guardian, 20 March 2000{{cite book |last1=Melvern |first1=Linda |author-link1=Linda Melvern |title=Intent to Deceive: Denying the Rwandan Genocide |date=2020 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78873-328-1 |page=133 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=59LMDwAAQBAJ&q=Barrie%20Collins}}{{cite journal |last1=Hoare |first1=Marko Attila |title=Genocide in the former Yugoslavia: a critique of left revisionism's denial |journal=Journal of Genocide Research |date=2003 |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=543–563 |doi=10.1080/1462352032000149495|s2cid=145169670 }}
Fox became head of media at CAFOD in 1995.
In December 2001 Fox was appointed the founding director of the Science Media Centre, based at the Royal Institution of Great Britain in London and its current chief executive.
In that capacity she has been a regular media commentator and gave evidence at the Leveson Inquiry into press standards in the UK in 2012.{{Cite web |title=Leveson Inquiry |url=https://www.discoverleveson.com/witness/Fiona_Fox/3892/ |access-date=2022-08-14 |website=discoverleveson.com}}
Awards
Fox was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science.{{London Gazette|issue=60534|supp=y|page=10|date=15 June 2013}} She was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society in 2023.{{Cite web |title=Fiona Fox |url=https://royalsociety.org/people/fiona-fox-36241/ |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=royalsociety.org}}
Personal life
Fox was born into an Irish Catholic family in Mancot, near Hawarden, North Wales. She has two older sisters, one of whom is Claire Fox.[https://web.archive.org/web/20081014070020/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2188787,00.html Sunday Times: Relative Values Claire and Fiona Fox, sisters] (May 2006) – An interview with Claire and Fiona Fox She is a supporter of Celtic F.C. and is married to political commentator and teacher Kevin Rooney. She was formerly a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party.[http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2006/November/Comment.asp Chemistry World: Comment: Playing fast and loose with science] (November 2006) – Following the release of the WWF report 'Chain of contamination: the food link', John Henry and Fiona Fox comment on the study, and its coverage in the media[http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/Issues/2004/February/comment.asp Chemistry World: Nanotech – The Next Controversy alike GM?] (February 2004){{cite web|url=http://fionafox.blogspot.com|title=On Science and the Media|website=fionafox.blogspot.com}}[http://www.lobbywatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=3164 LobbyWatch profile of Fox]{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/fox-fiona|title=Fiona Fox – The Guardian|website=The Guardian}}
Published works
{{cite book |last1=Fox |first1=Fiona |title=Beyond the Hype |date=2022 |publisher=Elliott and Thompson Limited |location=London |isbn=978-1-78396-617-2 |oclc=1274201845 |language=English|author-mask=1}}
References
External links
- [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Fiona_Fox Profile] at SourceWatch
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Category:People educated at St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint
Category:Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978) members
Category:British public relations people
Category:Officers of the Order of the British Empire